Ewa Monika Zebrowski was born in London, England.  She grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, graduated from Helen Bush School in Seattle, Washington, and obtained her B.A. from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

After a brief teaching career, Ms. Zebrowski began to work actively in the film industry in 1975.  She worked in both film production and marketing as well as organizing various film-related workshops and conferences in Canada and abroad until 1997 when she began her BFA in photography.

Ms. Zebrowski completed her BFA in Photography at Concordia University, Montréal in 2001, and in 2003 obtained her M.A. in Visual Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

While doing her B.A. Ms. Zebrowski received an Occidental International Fellowship to pursue research at the Polish Film School in Lodz, Poland.  In 1980 Ewa Zebrowski was awarded a Canada Council Short Term Grant that took her to Italy. In 1999 she was selected to participate in a Landscape Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2002 she received a grant from the Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Mediatiques, awarded by  UQAM and Concordia Universities.

Ms. Zebrowski has had fourteen solo shows:  including Building the Arch (1998), A Landscape in Transformation (1999), le mois de la photo, Celebration of Place: Chateaufort Community Garden (2001), le mois de la photo, remembering & forgetting (2002), at the window (2003), remembering brodsky (2004), albergo (2005), vedute di venezia (2007 & 2011), and most recently, UNRAVELING - the dress of Jadwiga (2009), and of time, lost & unframed, Venice (2011).

She has participated in numerous group shows in Canada, the United States, Italy, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia.

Her photographic work and artist’s books can be found in the Special Collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, the National Library of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Brown University, the Center for Book Arts, Connecticut College, Columbia University, Lafayette College, McGill University, Middlebury College, Smith College, Texas Tech University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, the University of the South, Wellesley College, Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, as well as in various private and public collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

In June 2006, tanto tempo senza notizie di te, a lyrical six foot long photographic work, was added to the permanent collection of the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Montreal and is currently part of their travelling exhibition De l’Ecriture.  In 2009 tempo perso was acquired by the Collection Loto-Quebec.

Ewa Monika Zebrowski was a featured guest at the Grazia Neri Gallery, Milan, Italy as part of the 5th Biennale Orizzonte Quebec organized by the Quebec Delegation in Rome in 2006.

She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts and des Lettres du Québec, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Concordia University, the Quebec Magazine Association and the Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators. 

Ms. Zebrowski’s clients include the City of Montreal, the Cirque du Soleil, Eden Entertainment, as well as various publishers and magazines, including Bezige Bij (the Netherlands), Goose Lane Editions, McClelland & Stewart, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Les Editions de la Pleine Lune, Macmillan UK, XYZ Editeur, Elle Québec, Châtelaine, and Coup de Pouce. 

Her artistic work has been featured in publications including:  Ciel Variable, Geist, Shots, Fraction Magazine, Grafika, Photo District News, and Vie des Arts. As well as various blogs including tales of flight, Elizabeth  Avedon etc.

Ewa Zebrowski lives in Montréal with her husband and two sons. She is represented in Montreal by Art Mûr, a contemporary art gallery, and by Millennium Images in London, England.